Let them offer their loyalty!-Chapter 1534 - 647: Thinking About My Saozi, Aren’t You?

In this situation, Tree Ancestor’s two sons are truly "the world has never seen a thousand-year-old Crown Prince"....

So, fighting bitterly for the inheritance right is absolutely impossible.

Moreover, what’s even more bizarre.... Even after the brothers fell out, the younger brother, Shu Xia, still went to his elder brother’s house from time to time.

Only, every time he went, the two would keep arguing, and even break into violent fights.

This strange behavior made quite a few people suspect Shu Xia was deliberately seeking trouble with his brother.

But now, looking at it, it’s more like.... he’s coveting his sister-in-law.

So..... it’s probably after falling out with his brother, he still goes to his brother’s house. Then.... if he wants to see his sister-in-law, he just sees her. And as for the fighting, they just fight as usual.

The only problem is.... these two brothers fight and fight, but now it seems the sister-in-law has ended up in Qiu Tu’s hands?

Thinking of this, Golden Lion suddenly felt a headache coming on.

He himself wasn’t interested in women, but he knew that, since ancient times, too many heroes and great men have stumbled over women.

Women really can affect a man’s judgment and reason.

And now, with Tree Ancestor just fallen, Man Huang’s husband also dead, yet Shu Xia comes together with Tian Qi. This is obviously not a good omen....

Just as Golden Lion was thinking all this.

That Qi Yun crown finally slowly approached Golden Lion and White Robe. And Tian Qi and Shu Xia landed not far from the two.

Seeing this scene, Golden Lion snapped out of it, hurriedly stepped forward with White Robe, and both gave a slight bow, greeting: "President."

Tian Qi, the President, was a man with a very dignified appearance. He was tall and well-proportioned. With a square face and eyes like deep flames of hell, just a casual glance into his eyes would make one feel a formidable oppressive force surging toward them.

As the man second only to the Divine King in the Western Kingdom, he had the right to be proud.

And as the person who single-handedly developed the Fog Hidden Association into the strongest force of the Western Kingdom, he held endless confidence in his heart.

In a certain sense, the reason why Fog Hidden Association is so high-pressure inside is inseparable from his way of doing things.

Even before becoming a Deity, Tian Qi was a king of a kingdom, and his governance was very straightforward—high pressure.

Born a king, he knew too well how to squeeze the lower-class people.

His methodology told him: as long as the lower class’s survival needs are met, the worse you treat them, the more loyal they’ll be.

Rebellion doesn’t occur when oppression increases, rather, it happens in the relaxed moment after the high-pressure ends.

So, outwardly he drained those races who had just suffered Cataclysm, and inwardly drained the lower layer of the Fog Hidden Association.

Only by rising from the lower layer and reaching the middle layer did one get some special treatment.

But even so, the middle layer in the Fog Hidden Association were still just bigger ants. To motivate the middle layer to strive, he would periodically harvest a batch of the middle layer, forcing them to keep progressing.

Only the elites of the middle layer who ascended to Eighth Rank, and became the high layer—the top combat force of the Fog Hidden Association—would he truly incorporate into the management.

But even then, Tian Qi still deliberately divided the high layer into classes: direct descendants, outsiders, etc., and kept up the pressure.

It was precisely due to this strict hierarchy, ferocious exploitation, and dictatorship that he successfully built Fog Hidden Association into the greatest power of the Western Kingdom.

With the twelve Eighth Rank Deities cultivated from the blood, flesh, and resources of the lower class and various races, they shone like galaxy warships, dazzling all the other top-tier forces!

And for that reason, Fog Hidden Association attracted the gaze of the Divine King.

Back then, when the human world was invaded by the Boundless Sea of Mind, Fog Hidden Association wanted to once again extort and absorb the human elites, squeeze the ordinary humans dry, and raise another five to eight Eighth Rank Deities for itself.

As a result, the West God King directly struck, splitting up the Association’s territory, supporting humanity breaking away from Fog Hidden Association, and establishing the second Sanctuary.

That the Divine King personally intervened shows just how powerful Tian Qi and the Fog Hidden Association are.

It’s said that it was only because the Divine King is an outstanding Heavenly God. If the one supporting the second Sanctuary was just an average Heavenly God, Tian Qi might have outright rebelled and slain a Heavenly God!

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Thus, the four met and exchanged greetings. Very soon, Tian Qi, surrounded by White Robe and Golden Lion, returned to the temporary fortress of the Fog Hidden Association.

In the fortress’s main hall, Tian Qi sat on the master’s seat, Shu Xia took a guest seat, and White Robe and Golden Lion sat to the left and right.

Once the four settled, Tian Qi swept his stern gaze over those present, then finally spoke expressionlessly, "I happened to run into Pavilion Master Shu Xia on the road."

"He said that the situation in the Northwestern Region seems to have abruptly changed. A lot of things happened?"

Hearing Tian Qi’s inquiry, Golden Lion and White Robe exchanged a glance, communicated silently, and then slowly recounted everything that had happened during this time.

When he heard that two obscure Seventh Rank Cataclysmics had ascended to Eighth Rank, then rampaged, not only slaying seven or eight Eighth Rank Great Evil Gods, but even killing Si Yuan Pavilion’s Tree Ancestor—Tian Qi’s expression flickered with obvious shock.

But only for a moment, then he dismissed it. Resting both hands on his chair’s armrests, he said sternly, "Tree Ancestor is the weakest among the Eighth Rank at their peak."